AMD Ryzen 5 Available Starting Today

AMD’s brand new AM4 chipset of processors are aptly named Ryzen, and that makes sense considering what a big comeback AMD made with their top-tier Ryzen 7 processors. Now, they’re announcing the Ryzen 5 family of processors, with prices starting from RM819 only.

There are already lots of reviews of the Ryzen 5 series of chips on the internet now, so you can check it out to get a feel of what the processors can do. From what I know, these chips are not to be joked around with.

Product Line

Model

Cores

Threads

Base Clock (GHz)

Boost Clock (GHz)

XFR Clock (GHz)

Included Cooler

TDP (Watts)

Price (MYR)

AMD Ryzen 5

1600X

6

12

3.6

4.0

4.1

N/A

95

1199

AMD Ryzen 5

1600

6

12

3.2

3.6

3.7

Wraith Spire

65

1039

AMD Ryzen 5

1500X

4

8

3.5

3.7

3.9

Wraith Spire

65

899

AMD Ryzen 5

1400

4

8

3.2

3.4

3.45

Wraith Stealth

65

819

Considering that the Ryzen 5 1600X is priced at only RM1,199, I can’t help but drool over the value we all can get if we’re heavy multitaskers. I mean seriously, 6 cores and 12 threads at these clock speeds and this price? AMD’s competitor doesn’t offer such a thing at all. In another note, RM819 for 4 cores 8 threads is much lower priced than Intel’s i5-7500 while having double the number of threads.